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Adding indicators to reports

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Adding indicators to reports

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Next up, I'm going to change my report to add a little bit more interesting graphical information. I am going to click the drop-down and select Edit in Report Builder. And what I'd like to do is have the report show up with some kind of visible graphical information about whether the number that we are showing is good, bad, or indifferent. Are these people either a good customer, a great customer, or a poor customer? There is a few ways I could do that. I might decide that I want to show the name up in bold. I might decide I want to show the TotalDue in red or green or orange but here's what I'm going to do. I am going to add a new column to this report. I am going to select in that cell and occasionally you'd be a little bit careful about selecting it. Sometimes you have to experiment a little bit. I've got the cell selected and I am going to right-click and I'm going to insert a column to the right, which gives me this, a new cell to do something with. But what? Here is what. Up on…

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